RE: McLaren P1 revealed
Discussion
DonkeyApple said:
LHD only is an extremely interesting statement on the British and Japanese economies. They will have sold a lot of these already and I guess too few are for here to justify wasting any time or money on a RHD version?
India drives on the left too, but has incredibly punitive import taxes.Australia and NZ too, at least one F1 has Victoria plates on it.
As others have said, I'm not sure the size of the RHD market for this car.
CraigyMc said:
DonkeyApple said:
I'm sure a true Englishman would pay for his own conversion to RHD by Macca' special development department.
I suspect many of the Englishmen who can afford this have homes in places that drive on the right, like Monaco or somewhere in Switzerland.C
With a company as meticulous as Macca you kind of assume someone went to an awful lot of trouble and through a lot of data to come to the decision they have.
It feels a shame though, from a selfish perspective.
DonkeyApple said:
CraigyMc said:
DonkeyApple said:
I'm sure a true Englishman would pay for his own conversion to RHD by Macca' special development department.
I suspect many of the Englishmen who can afford this have homes in places that drive on the right, like Monaco or somewhere in Switzerland.C
With a company as meticulous as Macca you kind of assume someone went to an awful lot of trouble and through a lot of data to come to the decision they have.
It feels a shame though, from a selfish perspective.
C
DonkeyApple said:
It feels a shame though, from a selfish perspective.
Something else just occurred to me, and I'm not sure why.When you have a flappy-paddle shift setup like precog, you render yourself impervious to people who want to change gear with either their right or left hand depending on whether they are in a LHD or RHD market, respectively.
Consequently, it's not as big a deal in one way.
The main thing I would prefer RHD for is moving into/out of tight junctions where visibility becomes a problem if you're on the "wrong" side.
C
CraigyMc said:
With the F1 userbase it probably involved a single, fairly small, email BCC list, and/or perhaps a couple of phonecalls to get that data.
C
They'd need more data. Maybe some kid got sent to all the tax havens with a team of dolly birds to ask people whether they wanted L or R when spending a bar on a car? C
DonkeyApple said:
They'd need more data. Maybe some kid got sent to all the tax havens with a team of dolly birds to ask people whether they wanted L or R when spending a bar on a car?
Lol... In my mind I visualise that scene... Salesman and the immaculately turned out McEttes or Mclarenettes 
Agent Orange said:
Streetrod said:
Stew2000 said:
marktul said:
Anyone else think the side profile is just crying out for it to become a GT3 racer? The shape would suit an outlandish wing on some expensive scaffolding.
Something like this.
Sorry for rough image but I only had a couple of mins to do it.
I had sort of the same crazy idea..Something like this.
Sorry for rough image but I only had a couple of mins to do it.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=23&...
anonymous said:
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Looking at it now I can see just how pretty it is and with some styling cues that will define it.
What I am really liking though is that Macca said they will release a new car every year. If they do this by using the central tub for economics as they have done so far then with all these cars being similar in skeleton there might be some really interesting models. I wonder if at some point one of these annual cara could be done as a more retro vehicle so stripped of all driver electronics?
Of course they may build an SUV next.
I am a massive Octane magazine fan and look forward to my copy dropping on my doorstep each month. So was a little annoyed when I popped into the local newsagents this morning to see the new issue complete with the new P1 on the cover when normally I get mine about five days before it appears on the shelves.
So with my best Angry of Croydon voice I put a call into the publishers where I was told subscriptions had to be put on hold for this issue due to an embargo placed on them by McLaren ahead of the reveal in Paris. My issue will be posted today
So that's the price Octane had to pay I suppose to get some kind of exclusive. They also have a full road test on the F1
Anyway rant over
So with my best Angry of Croydon voice I put a call into the publishers where I was told subscriptions had to be put on hold for this issue due to an embargo placed on them by McLaren ahead of the reveal in Paris. My issue will be posted today
So that's the price Octane had to pay I suppose to get some kind of exclusive. They also have a full road test on the F1
Anyway rant over
At the moment I can only see one flaw in the design and that is also one of my favourite parts of the car.
The small aero treatment behind the front wheel that forms part of the door. If you look from the rear forward you can see a large amount of the tyre, therefore when driving in wet and dirty conditions it looks like the tyres are going to make an absolute mess of the side of the car, I wonder how that will be resolved on the production cars?
The small aero treatment behind the front wheel that forms part of the door. If you look from the rear forward you can see a large amount of the tyre, therefore when driving in wet and dirty conditions it looks like the tyres are going to make an absolute mess of the side of the car, I wonder how that will be resolved on the production cars?
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